Well, he may not be blogging (yet) but there is an excellent interview with Pat Helland on TheServerSide.NET.  Pat proposes a solution to the debates about what SOA is and how it is defined.   Pat says we should focus instead on HST (Hooking Shit Together):

"Hooking Shit Together emphasizes the fact that I've got two things, they're separate, they're independent, and it's about: How the heck do I make them work together. That then takes me to messaging, that then takes me to Schema, that then takes me to the contracts and the flows between them while allowing them to be independent. I think there's far more in common in doing that inside an IT shop, and doing it across IT shops, than there are differences. So I actually like HST because it emphasizes what's in common about tying things together across machines, without regard to whether they're in the same company or not."

Pat will always have a special place in my heart because he taught me about Microsoft Transaction Server using an analogy about banana splits on an AVI movie that was part of a Visual Basic 5(?) multimedia (remember when that meant something?) CD-ROM.  The man's a genius.